Maple Sugaring in a Warming Climate

Provided by: Gulf of Maine Research Institute |Published on: May 3, 2024
Lesson Plans Grades 6-8

Synopsis

  • In this collection of 6 lessons, students will learn about why trees make sugar, how people harvest that sugar, and the impacts of climate change on Maine's maple syrup producers.
  • Students will create a diagram illustrating the process of syrup-making, analyze data for Portland, Bangor, and Quebec City temperatures to decide the time to start tapping, play a game to model syrup production in Jackman, analyze maps, graphs, and interviews, adapt the game to account for temperature variability, and create a maple business proposal using Passamaquoddy Maple as an example.
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Subjects: Biology, Mathematics
Authors: Gulf of Maine Research Institute
Region: North America, USA - Northeast, United States, Vermont, Connecticut, Maine, Rhode Island, New Hampshire
Languages: English

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